I broke down and decided to try their Pistachio Latte the other day after seeing an ad that made it look super tasty. (someone also gave me a gift card, so it was free)
It wasn't as bad as most of their drinks, but that's no reason for me to go back. I can make coffee at home.
You don't go to Starbucks for the coffee. It's just a comfortable, familiar place to be a shiftless layabout pretending to work on your laptop that's not home. The vaguely coffee-scented diabetic child's drink you buy with it is a mere courtesy.
I made the mistake of ordering something labeled tea there once. Probably more corn syrup in it than anything that could be accurately called tea. I'll stick to the he iced chocolate if I ever end up there again. At least then I know I'm getting a chocolate milkshake.
I go to local non-chain coffees not because the coffee is any better (it very often isn't) but I'd figure my courtesy $3 or $4 on a burnt roast and a small pastry means more to them (especially after 2020) than Starbucks, which easily survives civil unrest and has plenty to go around.
Nobody is drinking Starbucks for coffee and what you drink coffee for, they are drinking it for the super tasty, ultra unhealthy drink that sates the fat craving. It being coffee just lets it double dip on addiction by mixing caffeine with sugar.
I broke down and decided to try their Pistachio Latte the other day after seeing an ad that made it look super tasty. (someone also gave me a gift card, so it was free)
It wasn't as bad as most of their drinks, but that's no reason for me to go back. I can make coffee at home.
You don't go to Starbucks for the coffee. It's just a comfortable, familiar place to be a shiftless layabout pretending to work on your laptop that's not home. The vaguely coffee-scented diabetic child's drink you buy with it is a mere courtesy.
I made the mistake of ordering something labeled tea there once. Probably more corn syrup in it than anything that could be accurately called tea. I'll stick to the he iced chocolate if I ever end up there again. At least then I know I'm getting a chocolate milkshake.
I go to local non-chain coffees not because the coffee is any better (it very often isn't) but I'd figure my courtesy $3 or $4 on a burnt roast and a small pastry means more to them (especially after 2020) than Starbucks, which easily survives civil unrest and has plenty to go around.
Nobody is drinking Starbucks for coffee and what you drink coffee for, they are drinking it for the super tasty, ultra unhealthy drink that sates the fat craving. It being coffee just lets it double dip on addiction by mixing caffeine with sugar.